The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong covers his early days on Chicago's South Side with King Oliver, his marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international rise making it a broader chronicle than his later memoir Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans. Part biography, part history, and part manifesto for the music then called swing, it remains one of the most earnest defenses of jazz ever written.
- Louis Armstrong, Author
- Published in 1993
- Paperback
- Published by Da Capo
- ISBN: 9780306805448
The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong covers his early days on Chicago's South Side with King Oliver, his marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international rise making it a broader chronicle than his later memoir Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans. Part biography, part history, and part manifesto for the music then called swing, it remains one of the most earnest defenses of jazz ever written.
- Louis Armstrong, Author
- Published in 1993
- Paperback
- Published by Da Capo
- ISBN: 9780306805448